"If people laugh as much reading it as I am while writing it then we'll all be very happy".
In the year since my diagnosis with leukemia, I've struggled to hold onto a sense of who I am while I watch the person in the mirror change.
I have to spend sentences explaining who I am while someone that is gay can use a single word or two.
Often, there was an emotional void; one would say that the other "doesn't see me, doesn't know who I am," while the other hadn't a clue: "I thought everything was just fine; we never argued, we don't fight".
Sandra Bullock said she doesn't use Twitter because "I don't want anyone to know where I am", while unironically giving a Vogue reporter a detailed tour of her favorite haunts in Austin, Texas.
People with a fixed mindset believe their qualities are fixed traits ("I am who I am"), while people with a growth mindset believe their qualities are just starting points, which can be developed through hard work, shaping who they could become.
